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mmmmmmammmmmmmM cine '56 l Pm Mon-Ft| ^ North Bry,, William King Cole appointed College Station city manager — Page 8 Aggies' No. 4 quarterback patiently waiting in wings — Page 11 The Battalion 81 No. 233 CJSPS 075360 14 pages College Station, Texas Thursday, October 24, 1985 •kieCrei 01 Ruddei eagan’s mood conciliatory in U.N. talks ti to he gance h . Asa ^itatiQd ceive Associated Press i|,EW YORK — President Reagan embarked Wednesday on three days ofintensive talks with friendly world Teadns to help prepare him for his Himit meeting next month with Hiet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Arriving at the United Nations for around of ceremonies marking the woiid body’s 40th anniversary, Rea- H’s first order of business was to meet with his special envoy, John C. Whitehead, just back from a fence- mending mission to Italy, Egypt and Tunisia. The deputy secretary of state was dispatched by Reagan to soothe strains arising from the U.S. inter ception of an Egyptian airliner car rying Palestinian hijackers to a safe haven following the murder ~ r American tourist Leon Klinghoffer aboard an Italian cruise ship. In a statement issued after the 20- minute meeting in Reagan’s hotel suite, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said Whitehead re ported he had been well-received in all three capitals and was confident his mission had been successful. of In Tunis, Whitehead sought to cool President Habib Bourguiba’s anger over the Reagan administrat ion’s initial endorsement of the Is raeli bombing of Palestine Liber ation Organization headquarters in Tunis, a raid that killed both Pales tinians and Tunisians. Reagan also attended a reception and lunch with about 80 heads of state and government before sitting down for separate meetings with Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of In dia, President Muhammed Zia al- Haq of Pakistan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain. In a luncheon toast, Reagan praised the United Nations as “a symbol of hope and reconciliation” but noted, “We have criticized it sometimes in the past when we felt it was not all that it could be and should be, and we have on occasion kdviser: A&M ntrees health care nadequate been frustrated. But we have never stopped believing in its possibilities.” Speakes, meanwhile, said Rea gan’s address to the U.N. General Assembly today would contain “one, broad, far-reaching initiative” on U.S.-Soviet relations that the admin istration hopes will provoke a re sponse from the Soviet leadership. He refused to be more specific. che • fried tida • Beef i • Shrimp ■eek Salad* Fned Qtfisd ed flounder 96-4118 ! By TAMARA BELL Stal f Writer Hn the three weeks since the A.P. ®eiu l Health Center reinstated giv ing gynecological exams and pre- Hbing birth control, it hasn’t been ■viding adequate services, says the Hilly adviser for the Texas A&M chapiter of National Organization for Women. I Dr Wendy Stock, a research sci- enti'i in psychology and NOW’s ad- jvisei, says the doctor hired by the llenier to dispense prescriptions for Hi control and give gynecological ■ms is a pediatrician, which (loesu t change the availability of gy- Hological services. Hit's ironic that the center should hire a pediatrician, because it’s going Reed one if it doesn’t provide con- }rac(|)tive care for the students,” Stock says. lyHowever, Dr. John Koldus, vice •idem for student services, says ■ employment of the new doctor ■ only to allow the center to re- litate routine physical exams for both males and females. Hecause the center was short two pBsicians, which caused a patient Rload, Dr. (Claude) Goswick (di- fectoi of the health center) decided lo forego giving routine physicals to Res and females until the patient load could be reduced,” Koldus says. ||But Goswick denies the services mere ever discontinued. He says the ■ter will continue to provide phys- R exams, Pap smears, prescrip tions for birth control and tne filling Kthose prescriptions. He says the IjUer never stopped giving gyneco- Bgical exams or prescribing birth Rrol. The confusion came when ^announced the center was think- jjg about discontinuing this service ^use of staffing problems, he “We were thinking about disconti- fcg this service, but it never got Jcnance to be put into effect be fore the bomb exploded,” he says. Goswick says physical exams are mtine and that’s not the purpose of ^health center. In the past, when jtaff physicians could accommo te the students by giving physical lams, then they would do this favor for them, he says. But Koldus says the center’s pur pose is to take care of the health eeds of the students, whatever See Adviser, page 14 Viewing Chemistry Photo by JENNIFER FRIEND Lisa Neubauer, a sophomore pre-med student method of studying organic chemistry. She says so from Corpus Christi, demonstrates her new far the method has worked for her. Chrysler, UAW reach tentative work contract Associated Press HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. — Chrysler Corp. and the United Auto Workers agreed Wednesday on a tentative contract for 70,000 strik ers, giving them wage parity with other autoworkers plus a $2,000 bo nus to make up for concessions granted when the automaker faced bankruptcy. However, the UAW did not get guarantees against job-threatening subcontracting and the company lost its bid for Japanese-style job classes. Chrysler said the three-year agreement would cost the company at least $1 billion more than the con tract that expired last week. If ratifiea, the agreement would give each U.S. Chrysler worker an immediate minimum of $2,000 cash to compensate for the $1 billion in contract concessions that workers granted the company during its brush with bankruptcy. Industry analysts said the pact generally would allow Chrysler to stay competitive with General Mo tors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. but may do little, if anything, to allow Chrysler to make inroads against the labor-cost advantages of the Japa nese. Separate strikes here and in Can ada, which began Oct. 16, will have cost the No.3 automaker more than $100 million in lost profits by the end of the week. A new contract for 10,000 Canadian workers was rati fied Monday and they returned to work. “We’re pleased with any set tlement, I mean, strikes are terrible,” Chrysler chief negotiator Thomas Miner said at a news conference. “We lost a lot of money and, in a short time, we would have lost a lot more.” The UAW’s Chrysler Council of 170 local union leaders meets today in Detroit to review the tentative contract and recommend it for rank- and-file ratification this weekend. UAW President Owen Bieber said he expected the agreement to pass, with workers returning on morning shifts Monday. Miner said Chrysler did not gain the reductions in job classifications that it had sought but would pursue the issue in local negotiations. The company, in the pursuit of higher productivity, had wanted about 500 job classes reduced to six to eight. Like the CM and Ford pacts, the Chrysler agreement contains penalty payments for excessive overtime and a large fund, called a job bank, to pay for the retraining of high-se- niority workers displaced by auto mation and productivity im provements. The company also agreed by let ter to discuss with the LAW its dis may over Chrysler’s subcontracting of work to outside suppliers, a major union issue. Union sources said the UAW will rely on the letter and the job bank fund to curb subcontract ing, or at least retrain or make pay ments to workers displaced by the practice. A&M student survives earthquake Aggie faced danger in Mexico By BRIAN PEARSON Staff Writer Texas A&M student Clifton “Skeeter” Dixon said he was lying awake in bed in central Mexico City at 7:20 a.m. on Sept. 19 when he heard what sounded like a big truck rumbling down the street outside his hotel room. Dixon said he realized his room at the Guadalupe Hotel was five stories above the ground and there was no truck or highway outside of his win dow. He said at that point he knew it was an earthquake. Dixon, 32, who is working on a doctorate in geology, received a grant from the Organization of American States and currently is in Mexico to study stingless bees. Dixon said he wasn’t afraid when he realized what was happening that morning. His immediate concern, he said, was to get out of the hotel when he felt the room starting to shake. “There was no way to stand up be cause the room was swaying so bad ly,” he said. Dixon’s shoes and other clothes were bouncing on the floor. A mirror was swinging outward and back and then smashed to bits. See Aggie,page 14 iA Fresh men SAT scores compared to SWC schools By JUNE PANG Staff Writer R The average Scholastic Aptitude "^Test score of Texas A&M’s 1985 freshman class is higher than the Re and national averages, but ks fifth among the six Southwest inference universities contacted by iHie Battalion. - average SAT score for A&M ^Rhmen this year is 1,031 including ^provisional students, says T. Gary fhvin, A&M’s associate director of _|0ffice of Measurement and Re- fiirch Services. Provisional students ■those whose SAT' scores are not ■to University enrollment stan- iirds but are allowed to enter under «stricted academic conditions. IT average score is 152 points higher than the state average for col- JS fege freshmen and 124 points better iRi the national average. 1905Te<i ! If provisional students are not in- BiyaA j | (Average SAT Scores.of Enrolled Freshmen} SWC Schools Fall '84 Fall -85 1. Rice University 1320 1325 2. Southern Methodist Univ. 1060 1 104 3. University of Texas 1052 1064 4. Texas Christian Univ. 1030 1050 5. Texas A&M University 1031 1040 6. Baylor University 1020 1002 7. University of Houston na na 8. Texas Tech University na na “na“ stands for “Not Available- eluded, the average SAT score for A&M freshmen is 1,040. Rice University, whose freshman average is 1,325, 285 points higher than A&M’s score, leads the univer sities contacted. 4 econd place goes to Southern Methodist University with an aver age SAT score of 1,104. SMU recorded the largest in crease in freshman SAT scores. It has improved 44 points from last year, according to SMU’s admissions office. The average SAT scores of fresh men at the University of Texas this fall is 1,064, says Jody Slover of UT’s Measurement and Evaluation Cen ter. That score puts U.T. in third place. UT had an average score of 1,052 in 1984. Erwin says if this year’s SAT scores did not include provisional students, A&M would see a nine- point increase over last year. That rise would be consistent with the in crease in the national averages, he says. Two major Texas universities, Texas Tech University and the Uni versity of Houston reported that freshmen SAT scores were not avail able. The registrar’s office at Texas Tech still is compiling data and the final result will not be available for about two weeks, university officials said. An official at UH’s Office of Counseling and Testing said the uni versity is in the process of calculating the scores. The University of Arkansas was not contacted; only Texas universi ties were surveyed. The SAT is scored on a scale of 200 to 800 for each of two parts, ver bal and math. A combined score of 1,600 is perfect. SAT scores are used to determine entrance requirements at A&M and many other universi ties. Goddess of Liberty to be replaced Associated Press AUSTIN — The 97-year-old Goddess of Liberty statue, which perched atop the Texas Capitol dome makes the building taller than the U.S. Capitol, will be re moved and replaced with a rep lica. Capitol architect Roy Graham said Wednesday that the nearly 16-foot-tall zinc statue is in such bad shape, it cannot be preserved on top of the building where it has stood since February 1888. “The Goddess must come down,” Graham said. “Our God dess is too far gone to resume her place atop the dome, where she would continue to be a threat to E ublic safety and the Capitol uilding itself.” The statue, estimated to weigh about one and a half tons, has suffered cracks, corrosion and other damage. Besides some large fractures, there are thousands of micro scopic cracks, Graham said. The statue, with a lone star held in its uplifted left hand, makes the Texas Capitol nearly 327 feet tall, several feet taller than the U.S. Capitol.